The Loss of Trust

Our successful American democratic republic has primarily rested on the trust of the majority of the general public.  That is to say, if the majority of the public disobeyed laws, all enforcement mechanisms would be rendered impotent.  I felt that trust in our government was earned when President Richard M. Nixon was impeached and forced to resign over the Watergate Scandal, proving that we have a nation of laws that apply to all; that was a high point in American history, which the entire world admired.

Unfortunately, today, we have a low point in our history when the Attorney General holds an unethical secret meeting and dismisses it as chit chat, when the FBI Director denies the obvious and demands credence, and when a secretary of state mismanages American secrets and makes jokes about erasing thousands of emails from public records.  It is hard to trust that we still have a nation of laws that apply to all and even harder to trust those who demand that we do.


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